Orange foot plate on mags?

[roylt]

What does this mean? Are they non firing mags or something else? Seems to be some sort of training deal but not sure what. Can someone explain.

Also If anyone has any for the P-series mags let me know.
I have seen a picture of one in an add for the Ruger armorer's school.

Thanks,

 

[crispy]

What they were made for and what people use them for are two different things.

I do not know why they were made.

I do know that some use them to identify certain mags when shooting competitions. e.g., barney mag.

 

[Gun Fan 70]

It also helps to spot the mag in the grass if you are doing reload drills.

 

[cruzerlou]

One reason for diffrent collored mag plates is this .say you have one mag loaded with standars H.P.ammo and the one with the orange floor plate is loaded with fragnabule ammo like the pressed powdered copper ammo that will preform like a full metal jacketed round in flesh but will turn to dust if it hits sheetrock so it won't penatrate walls in a house .I mark my mags for my M-4 patrol carbine with a strip of red electrail tape that have
55gr V-MAX bullets in them for soft targets like humans the bullet will explode when it hits flesh and won't exit a person or a wall and don't mark my mags that have M855 ,55gr FMJ's in them .
I keep the marked mag in the gun because most of the time if I use the M-4 I'm clearing a building ,but have a mag with the FMJ's jungle cliped to it if I need to enguage a car or penatrate a bairrer/ car boby all I have to do is a quick mag swap ,rack the charging handle and now I have some penatration .Given the choice and time though If I'm shooting at a car I grab my M-1100 tactail that I keep loaded with a slug then a 00 buck ,slug ,buck ,so on .
Lou

 

[mrmike7189]

It also helps to spot the mag in the grass if you are doing reload drills.

The ornage ones were easy to see on the ground , when done shooting, you can easily police them up!
My used Ruger was a Police dept. gun and came with Orange mag floor plates for this reason.